vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2018-16881

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 25, 2019
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

A denial of service vulnerability was found in rsyslog in the imptcp module. An attacker could send a specially crafted message to the imptcp socket, which would cause rsyslog to crash. Versions before 8.27.0 are vulnerable.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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